2018-05-24T19:47:55ZKeeping track Mapping and tracking vulnerable young peoplehttp://hdl.handle.net/10395/2179
Keeping track Mapping and tracking vulnerable young people
The notion of social exclusion, and the need for its existence and effects to be addressed and combated by government social policy, has gained great prominence in recent years, as illustrated by the establishment and work of the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU). One of the issues of particular interest and concern to policy makers and practitioners has been the fortunes of
‘vulnerable’ young people, especially those who become detached from ‘mainstream’ youth transitions. Such transitions have tended to become longer, more ambiguous or uncertain and more diverse as a plethora of different pathways into the labour market and other domains of adulthood have emerged.
2001-04-01T00:00:00ZGeographical mobility Family impactshttp://hdl.handle.net/10395/2178
Geographical mobility Family impacts
This study examines the family impacts of geographical mobility, with particular emphasis on employer-initiated relocation. It is hoped that the results from this research will add to the understanding of the impacts on families of geographical mobility, and so will help to guide future policies. It is in the interests of employers and employees that the costs and benefits of relocation and other types of geographical mobility are fully understood and the negative impacts minimised.
A particular emphasis of this report is on families with children. However, reflecting the diversity of family and household types and changes over the life course, as well as the interests of employers and policy makers, the experiences and concerns of single, widowed and divorced people, and of childless couples, are not excluded from the study. Similarly, although the
main emphasis is on relocation – involving a change in residence as well as workplace, examples of the substitution of commuting for relocation, on a shorter- or longer-term basis, are Introduction explored also.
2003-05-01T00:00:00ZEnvironmental Justice, Childhood Deprivation and Urban Regeneration.http://hdl.handle.net/10395/2167
Environmental Justice, Childhood Deprivation and Urban Regeneration.
The notion of environmental justice is connected to the ways in which the goods (and conversely the 'bads') of society are distributed, both socially and spatially. The concept has been most strongly developed in the US, where a distinctive environmental justice movement grew in the early 1980s out of protests against the large dump for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the predominantly poor, black, and powerless community of Afton, in Waren County, North Carolina. As it developed, the protest movement identified inequalities in the exposure of individuals and communities to environmental risks and hazards as fundamentally. and profoundly, a justice issue, wherein already well-documented inequalities in the consumption of societies goods were being exacerbated by the concomitant inequalities in the distribution of the negative externalities arising from the production of those goods.
Chapter 7 in the book Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZRegionalisation and the Geography of Povertyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10395/2166
Regionalisation and the Geography of Poverty
There are been considerable debate on regionalisation since the Government's decision to divide the country into two regions to maximize EU structural aid and the subsequent EU decision to confer Objective 1 status on a revised 13-county region. A fundamental question is whether such regional division best serves the national interest. It is clear, however, that the new regionalisation bears little relation to the spatial pattern of poverty in Ireland.
1999-04-01T00:00:00Z